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stargateficrec2017-10-19 09:47 pm
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The Monster in the Closet by fourteenlines (R)
Show: SGA
Rec Category: Crossover (Firefly)
Characters: Rodney McKay, Kaylee
Pairings: None
Categories: Crossover, Angst, Dark, Slave, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: Off screen death of SGA member and it is Reavers so lots of gore, violence, mutilation, rape, and cannibalism
Author's Website: AO3 or Livejournal
Link: The Monster in the Closet and the sequel
Why This Must Be Read:
Kaylee have been captured by Reavers and barely surviving on their ship. Circumstances are extremely grim. Until one day a new, strange prisoner arrives...
What happens to Kaylee and Rodney is horrific, and it's written from the POV of a Kaylee who has been bludgeoned into becoming matter-of-fact and almost affectless about the horror, though bits of her canon personality still peek through. The way she and Rodney end up escaping the Reavers is a nice ironic twist. (Don't feed Wraith to those who know what they are.) A short but haunting story, which, despite the warnings and grimness, ends on a note of real, sweet hope. It has a sequel that, although it deals with PTSD, offers a happy ending.
Like all modern myths, the stories evolve in short order. What a woman on Osiris tells her grandchildren as a cautionary tale will bear little resemblance to the same story told around a campfire on Sinhon some months later.
The one thing they agree on, the one thing present in all of the stories is just this: they say Reavers don't take prisoners.
The stories are wrong. Even monsters like to have playthings.
Rec Category: Crossover (Firefly)
Characters: Rodney McKay, Kaylee
Pairings: None
Categories: Crossover, Angst, Dark, Slave, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: Off screen death of SGA member and it is Reavers so lots of gore, violence, mutilation, rape, and cannibalism
Author's Website: AO3 or Livejournal
Link: The Monster in the Closet and the sequel
Why This Must Be Read:
Kaylee have been captured by Reavers and barely surviving on their ship. Circumstances are extremely grim. Until one day a new, strange prisoner arrives...
What happens to Kaylee and Rodney is horrific, and it's written from the POV of a Kaylee who has been bludgeoned into becoming matter-of-fact and almost affectless about the horror, though bits of her canon personality still peek through. The way she and Rodney end up escaping the Reavers is a nice ironic twist. (Don't feed Wraith to those who know what they are.) A short but haunting story, which, despite the warnings and grimness, ends on a note of real, sweet hope. It has a sequel that, although it deals with PTSD, offers a happy ending.
Like all modern myths, the stories evolve in short order. What a woman on Osiris tells her grandchildren as a cautionary tale will bear little resemblance to the same story told around a campfire on Sinhon some months later.
The one thing they agree on, the one thing present in all of the stories is just this: they say Reavers don't take prisoners.
The stories are wrong. Even monsters like to have playthings.
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I don't usually like to rec dark fic but this one is, like you said, quite affecting that I feel it deserves a mention.